Sunday Play Time

 October 25, 2020

Madison has worked Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon.  She went to work before Bradley finished his therapy on Friday, and then she had her own homework and late start to her day yesterday, and then she was up and getting ready when Bradley got up today and was out the door before he really saw her.  So in truth, it is like Bradley hasn’t seen her in three days. 

To say he has missed her is an understatement.  After we had dinner tonight, he has been following her all over the house.  She came in and sat with him for a few minutes in his spot on the couch, the two of them sitting there giggling about who knows what - and honestly, who cares.  He was in a cross between full belly laughs and extreme giggles.  So was she honestly.

She tried to tell him to stay because she had homework to do...so he just followed her into her room.  She brought him back again.  And he followed her again...and she brought him back.  After she tried a third time I told her to just sit with him a little while.  It was already 6:20 and by 7:30, he would be asleep or else very close.  I said to her “Obviously, this little boy has missed you very much and really needs to spend some time one-on-one with you.  If you haven’t got a lot of homework, could you give him twenty minutes or so...in an hour he’ll be asleep, but he won’t be playing that long.”  

So she sat with him on the couch again, and they started playing, and he started trying to copy everything she said...even the nonsense she was delivering because it made him laugh.  At one point, she moved to the side of him and starting playing hide and seek.  Bradley would cover his eyes and try to count to five.  I say try because he knows how to count to five, he just was laughing so hard he couldn’t seem to remember all the numbers in all the right order.  

So then Madison started hiding a little farther away, which led to chaos.  So she hid in the corner of the living room with a blanket over her head.  He found her because he is a little bit of a cheater and though his hands started by covering his eyes, he did manage to fling his hands open so that he could see her as he was counting and laughing.  After that, he wanted to have the blanket over his head.  And I am not even sure what we were playing after that.  He would stand but he tv, counting “1,2,3 Go” then would run towards her, flapping his hand under the blanket until he got close to her and would turn around and drop butt first into her lap.  Good grief!  What a super funny, and super cute little boy!  

Here are a couple little videos of Madison and Bradley playtime tonight.  Maybe, sometimes my videos load on here and sometimes they don’t - so now you know why this was a description of playtime on the sad chance that my videos don’t load correctly.  :-)

Either way, Bradley got what he needed when his sister pushed her work back a little so that he could have her undivided attention for just a few minutes.  What an exciting push to wear him out so that he was down for sleep so fast.  Sadly, he is waking now and crying in his sleep/awake state.  This is the second time he has done this this week and I am hoping not a habit that he is starting to get.  There is not much worse than a little boy sleeping soundly only to wake up crying so softly you almost can’t hear him.  But hopefully, he will get settled again quickly enough and I hope with better dreams this time around.  Sometimes the excitement and fun with a favorite sister is just a little too much for him.  

He’s back to sleep for now, so we’ll see how it goes from here and for how long.  HAHA!  

Happy Sunday All!